December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

reuters crypto story (fwd)
by Lauren Amy Gelman 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Lauren Amy Gelman, USACM gelman(a)acm.org U.S. Public Policy Committee for the Association for Computing ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 01 Aug 1997 16:24:40 -0400 From: Aaron Pressman <aaron.pressman(a)reuters.com> Subject: reuters crypto story Human rights groups favor strong encryption abroad WASHINGTON, Aug 1 (Reuter) - Human rights activists came to Capitol Hill on Friday to tell lawmakers of their need to use strong computer encoding programs, subject to strict U.S. export limits, in their work outside the country. The debate over exports of encryption technology, which scrambles information and renders it unreadable without a password or software "key," has largely pitted the interests of commercial companies and civil libertarians against those of law enforcement and intelligence agencies. But human rights advocates said Friday they also had a critical interest at stake. Swift and inexpensive communications over the Internet "promise to destroy the ability of abusive regimes to silence their people, hide their atrocities and blockade the truth," said Dinah PoKempner, deputy general counsel for Human Rights Watch. "Encryption offers the most fundamental protection to those who seek to bring abuses to light in these circumstances," she added at a briefing for congressional staff. Those who report human rights abuses can become victims of abuse if discovered, so the availability of encryption to hide electronic mail messages or faxes can be a matter of "life or death," said Patrick Ball, who trains human rights activists to use the technology. The Clinton administration generally prohibits the export of strong encryption unless the products allow the government to decode any message by gaining access to the software keys. A variety of encryption-related legislation is pending in Congress, including bills that would overturn the Clinton policy and relax the export limits. Ball, senior program associate with the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), warned that the use of so-called key recovery features to give governments access to coded messages could compromise the work of human rights groups. "How can we ensure that intelligence and law enforcement groups in repressive countries will not directly or indirectly obtain human rights groups keys from the U.S. government," Ball asked. "Human rights monitoring is always defined by repressive regimes as a threat to national security." Congressional staffers attending the briefing also heard from leading cryptography scientists who said U.S. export controls stifled research on encryption, thereby slowing the development of more secure computer networks. Alex Fowler, project coordinator with the AAAS, said the presentations were intended to counter the portrait of encryption users painted by law enforcement agencies. "We want to reaffirm that cryptography is a science, not just a pastime of anarchists, terrorists and hackers," Fowler said. The export rules prohibit U.S. researchers from collaborating with foreign scientists on coding technology, according to Ian Goldberg, a graduate student at the University of California. In January, Goldberg sucessfully cracked a message in a few hours that had been encoded with the most powerful encryption allowed to be freely exported from the United States. A Canadian citizen, Goldberg said that he could collaborate with others or publish research on the Internet while home from school. "But I can't go home every time I have an idea --the plane fare alone..." he joked. --Aaron Pressman((202-898-8312)) For related news, double click on one of the following codes: [E] [U] [MNI] [NAT] [CAN] [US] [WASH] [BUS] [TEL] [DPR] [TRD] [ENT] [MUNI] [GVD] [DBT] [INT] [FRX] [CA] [LEN] [RTRS] Friday, 1 August 1997 16:04:06 RTRS [nN01204006] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the sender specifically states them to be the views of Reuters Ltd.

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SSLbrute progress.
by droelke＠spirit.aud.alcatel.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Date: Thu Aug 24 20:02:47 GMT 1995 Two hours into it, and the key numbers that brclient is returning show about 5% allocated already.... That brings this to closure in around 24 hours - 12hours for 1/2 the space. Although - I also just checked the status, and it doesn't seem to be up to date with the keys I am getting, and it doesn't show any that it does have under my name as being acked. This could be just a delay thing I guess, but it could also be that I just updated brloop and brclient to the latest versions. Has anyone else thought of putting Damien's slave code that checks for idle tty's, etc into brutessl? Dan ------------------------------------------------------------------ Dan Oelke Alcatel Network Systems droelke(a)aud.alcatel.com Richardson, TX http://spirit.aud.alcatel.com:8081/~droelke/

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BruteSSL: WTF? 0c2b-cf7a NOACK 0c2b 50000 Joe Thomas <jthomas@ogi.com>
by jered＠MIT.EDU 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

It appears that Joe Thomas <jthomas(a)ogi.com> has more or less locked (until things start getting reassigned) most of the keyspace. Even if he had a MasPar, it would still take him more than 2 days to check this space. Does anyone know what the deal with this is? A simple error? A malicious attack? (I think that the SKSP is far to insecure to be effective....I could falsely ACK parts of the keyspace if I wanted to be mean.) An NSA agent who will check that keyspace and return the results in the next hour? --Jered jered(a)mit.edu

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by NO Remailer 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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17 Dec '03

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by Robert Hettinga 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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by Joichi Ito 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Thanks to everyone who sent me information about Key Recovery. FYI, I gave a fairly objective update on the current status of the bills being debated in the US, distributed the Walsh Report (missing some paragraphs) and reviewed John Davidson's comments on the report, distributed and reviewed "The Risks of Key Recover, Key Escrow and Trusted Third-Party Encryption", distributed and reviewed most of the material written by Carl Ellison, reviewed the recent letter from Janet Reno to Congress, distributed Whit Diffie's May '93 testimony on Clipper, and finished by distributing materials from the TIS site, in particular going over RecoverKey. I can't tell you about any of the other stuff that is currently being presented in the study group, but once the report becomes public, I will try to get an English version up on the Net. It should end up being the Japanese National Poice Agency's official position on Key Escrow, Certification Authorities, and several other issues. I will be participating in another study group soon to discuss many of these issues with the Self Defense Force from the point of view of Japanese national security as well as another NPA study group on what to do about "crackers"... Anyway, if anyone who can give me some insight into these areas will be at HIP, I'd love to chat. ;-) Thanks again. - Joi P.S. I am not a "policeman" but an outside boardmember of these study groups. The ministries are under quite a bit of scrutiny these days and the study groups tend to be quite frank and balanced. The reports don't always dictate the law, but since most politicians do not have real staffers, therefore most of the expert study is done in the ministries. -- Finger jito(a)nsm.eccosys.com or jito(a)garage.co.jp for PGP Key Fingerprint for RSA PGP Key ID 0x0EE23A2D 0D3A 7AAA 3DA8 E7B3 3AF1 C6FA B7ED D834 Fingerprint for DSS/Diffie-Hellman PGP Key ID 0x2D9461F1 58F3 CA9A EFB8 EB9D DF18 6B16 E48D AF2A 2D94 61F1 Home Page: http://domino.garage.co.jp/jito/joihome.nsf To subscribe to my personal mailing list send mailto:friends-subscribe@ito.com

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Re: Joichi Ito as a Junior Policeman
by Ross Wright 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

On or About 1 Aug 97 at 23:46, Tim May wrote: > You sound like a "junior policeman" to me. I smelled bacon. And I thought I saw Doughnut crumbs. > Another person to add to the killfiles. Hey, not me. You gotta know what the bad guys are up to. =-=-=-=-=-=- Ross Wright King Media: Bulk Sales of Software Media and Duplication Services http://www.slip.net/~cdr/kingmedia Voice: (408) 259-2795

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